Schrattenbach (Dietmannsried)
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Schrattenbach
Market Dietmannsried
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| Height : | 753 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 13.72 km² |
| Residents : | 1007 (Dec. 31, 2005) |
| Population density : | 73 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1978 |
| Postal code : | 87463 |
| Area code : | 08374 |
Schrattenbach is a place in the market Dietmannsried in the Bavarian-Swabian district of Oberallgäu .
geology
Schrattenbach is located on the eastern edge of the old Illertal. Today this valley is a dry valley, because at the end of the last ice age the Iller dug a new bed between Reicholzried and Altusried . Mighty gravel deposits remained in the old valley, which today are mined in many gravel pits . The water-permeable gravel soils often caused a lack of water in earlier times, which was only eliminated by the water supply from the Ehwiesmühltal .
The steep 150 m high slope over Schrattenbach allows you to fly with kites and paragliders . In the middle of the Illertal is the Allgäuer Tor with the Allgäuer Tor Ost motorway service station of the same name . The Allgäuer Tor forms the border between the Oberallgäu and Unterallgäu districts .
history
The place is mentioned in a document in the Salbuch of the Princely Monastery of Kempten from 1394. A chronicle about Kempten (Allgäu) and the Oberallgäu, published in 1984 by Verlag für Heimatpflege Kempten im Heimatbund Allgäu e. V., lists Schrattenbach (as Scratinbach) in the overview before 1200 documented locations. The burial mound fields of Lehenbühl, southwest of the community reed near Schrattenbach, suggest that the immediate area was already settled in the Bronze Age. The fief book of the Kempten Monastery from 1451 provides written evidence of the St. Nicholas Church , whose tower , made of Nagelfluh rocks, is probably the oldest building in the village.
Another document of interest to Schrattenbach comes from 1490, issued by Johann von Riedheim , prince abbot of the Kempten monastery. In this document, the abbot subsequently approves the marriage of Hanns Ruhe (Rauch), Pfeiffenmacher from Schrattenbach, and Elisabeth Schräglin. What this Hanns Ruhe produced wasn't tobacco pipes, but recorders . Further evidence suggests that this flute construction began at least a generation earlier and was continued at least a generation later. The flutes made by the Rauch family from Schrattenbach were not only valued regionally, but also across Europe. This is evidenced by a number of preserved copies of these flutes in the instrumental and national museums of Munich , Nuremberg , Frankfurt am Main , Salzburg , Paris , Brussels and Antwerp, which are completely different in their voices . The common hallmark of all flutes is the sign, consisting of the name Rauch and two three-leaf clover leaves inclined to the right. The most remarkable instrument is owned by the Vleeshuis Museum in Antwerp: a 2.50 m long double bass recorder from the instrument collection of the Osterhuis , a house of the Hanseatic merchants in Antwerp. It was built in 1535 by Caspar Rauch.
In addition to the usual craft businesses and agriculture , there was another important branch of the economy in Schrattenbach : A lime distillery was first mentioned in 1529 and this lasted until around 1900. Traces of the former limestone quarries can still be found today. When the lime burners set up their lime kiln at a different location in 1645 because the stones at the previous location had become rare, several farmers appeared before the court council in Kempten. They wanted to have the lime distillery banned because it caused them damage and they were unable to continue to give the full tithe to the pen. An application that the then Prince Abbot Roman Giel von Gielsberg rejected because he urgently needed these limestones for the new construction of the Basilica of St. Lorenz and his abbot's residence .
On November 23, 1863, the Schrattenbach community was reorganized by hiving off the Dietmannsried community.
Western air currents, which repeatedly create a strong updraft at the heap, were used for flight tests as early as 1937. At that time it was private individuals who used this slope and had to pull or push their gliders up the slope with muscle power until a cable winch was installed in 1938 and a large shed as a hangar down in the valley . During the Second World War , Schrattenbach became the seat of a war school and the young aviators were trained at the Schrattenbacher Fliegerhalde. When a Schrattenbach pilot was on home leave in the summer of 1944 and was taking advantage of the fine weather for a training flight with his Fieseler Storch , he encountered an American bomber group on their way north. Two of the thirteen escort fighters separated from this unit and hunted the German pilot with their P-51 Mustang , which then made them aware of the dump and destroyed the system with their on-board cannons. Around 1976 the first hang-gliders discovered this slope for themselves, and since then there has often been brisk flight activity again. A few years ago, more and more paragliders joined the group. In the meantime, the club founded by these pilots has acquired the take-off and landing area.
On January 1st, 1978 Schrattenbach was reintegrated into the Dietmannsried market.
Attractions
Like every Calvary , the path to the Cape is an attempt to unite religion and nature . The path begins southeast of the church. The initiator of the Way of the Cross was Pastor Matthias Graf (1866–1934). During his ten years in Schrattenbach from 1907 to 1917, the Mariengrotte , also called Lourdes grotto, the Marian column and the new chapel (inauguration: October 18, 1915) were built. The Chronicle of Dietmannsried tells of an old chapel. In 1630 a Pietà was created for this chapel , which was in the choir of the St. Nicholas Church until 2014. The new Kapfkapelle is considered the oldest war memorial chapel on German soil. The Marian Column was erected in 1908 by the Schrattenbacher Burschenverein as a jubilee fountain in honor of Pope Pius X 's 50th anniversary as a priest . Originally the fountain stood on the small traffic island in the middle of the street in front of the war memorial until the end of the 1950s, to protect it from the increasing volume of traffic, it was relocated to its current location in the middle of the war memorial. From the Schrattenbacher Burschenverein, which was also founded by Matthias Graf, the Catholic rural youth movement Schrattenbach KLJB developed over the years.
traffic
Federal Autobahn 7 runs west of the town . The bus route 61 of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Kempten runs through the village .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 521 .
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 795 .
